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...Another was the attack last year on Australian health insurer Medibank....
...The same collection also lent the V&A a gold and enamel box, and both have been retained in Britain. So this is a tricky one: do those objects count as public art, or as pieces of private wealth?...
...For many years, international sales even by larger studios have been haphazardly managed....
...The second-highest rise in funds benchmarked to a provider’s indices have been secured by the London Bullion Market Association, at $49bn, thanks to a rush into gold ETFs....
...The possible $30bn valuation of its North American, Australian and New Zealand operations reflects future prospects more than current reality....
...“This is not going to be a V-shaped recovery from here given the many months [or] years it will take for full repair, but it feels good now.”...
...Xerox wants to give HP’s board its walking papers We’re all guilty of overusing the David v Goliath trope but in the case of Xerox and HP, it really does apply....
...Documents obtained by the BBC reportedly showed that the Morebath fund invested in Mesoblast, an Australian medical research company; Eros International, an Indian film company; and Hummingbird Resources...
...Freeport’s Grasberg mine in the province of Papua is one of the world’s largest gold and copper mines....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on December 11, 2018. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...The deal included Anglo-Australian giant Rio Tinto’s participating interest in Freeport Indonesia’s operations at the Grasberg mine in the province of Papua, one of the world’s largest gold and copper pits...
...Freeport discovered the Grasberg copper and gold deposit in Papua in 1988. It is said to be the world’s second-largest copper mine in output terms and the top source of gold....
...And, finally, some less welcome Anglo-Australian news: it’s the Opening Quote Ashes update – as if you needed it....
...AMP owns two of Australia’s biggest shopping centres, the Macquarie Centre in Sydney and Pacific Fair on Queensland’s Gold Coast....
...The Australian dollar was up 0.2 per cent. The softer US dollar also buoyed oil prices. International benchmark Brent crude rose 0.2 per cent to $57.47 a barrel after dropping 0.5 per cent on Monday....
...On Friday HNA sold an Australian office block to US buyout group Blackstone for A$205m ($166m) in an attempt to boost cash reserves....
...The remaining companies with all-male boardrooms include Euromoney Institutional Investor, the financial publishing business; MetroBank, the challenger bank; and Centamin, the gold miner....
...It has shut down one of its main engineering sites, making about 40 staff redundant, and put the V-Charge on ice....
...A recent trade agreement between Australia and Japan, which gives Australian producers easier access to the Japanese market, is costing US exporters $400,000 per day, she says....
...Brent crude, the international benchmark, was flat at $48.69 today in Asia, having leaped 5.9 per cent yesterday....
...The dovish stance of Janet Yellen, who is likely to increase rates at a slower pace than expected next year, has also buoyed Australian gold stocks, Fast FT reports....
...Energy stocks were leading the Japanese and Australian benchmarks higher....
...The price of gold is up $2½ to $1,276 an ounce....
...The dollar trimmed early losses and shorter-term US Treasury prices fell, although gold managed to eke out modest gains....
...Dan Labbad, chief executive of international operations at Lendlease — an Australian-based construction and property company that employs 13,000 people — said his company has introduced a series of mental...
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